Pick-handle protector



Sept. 4, 1923. v

J. S. CURZON PICK HANDLE PROTECTOR Filed June 24, 1922 Curzwm Patented Sept. 4, 1923.

JOHN S. CURZON, OF STORES, UTAH.

PICK-HANDLE PROTECTOR.

Application filed June 24, 1922. Serial No. 570,606.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, JOHN S. CURzoN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Storrs. in the county of Carbon and State of Utah, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Pick-Handle Protectors, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to guards or protectors for tool handles and these protectors are more particularly intended for pick handles such as coal miners use.

The cost of furnishing and replacing wooden handles of picks constitutes aconsiderable item in coal mining, as the handles are exposed to injury from rocks and sharp lumps of coal during operation, and the handles are particularly subjected to such injury close under the head of the pick" They are also liable to be burnt during/the process of retempering the pick points, unless special precautions are taken to protect them.

The main object of the invention is to furnish the miner with an effective guard for his pick handles, at a very low cost and another object is to make the guard adjustable to handles of different sizes and also 'to make it easily attachable on any handle.

It will be evident that a protector of this kind is also useful for handles of other tools, such as axes, hammers, sledges, and the like.

In the accompanying drawing one embodiment of the invention is illustrated.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of a pick with my protect-or attached to the handle Fig. 2 is atransverse section along line 2-2 of Fig. 1, and

Fig. 3 is the blank or plate used to'manu- 'facture the protector.

In the drawing the reference numeral 10 represents the handle and numeral .11 the head of an ordinary pick. Thehandle 10 has generally an oval cross section'near the head 11, as best seen in Fig. 2, and the protector is made to closely fit around this portion of the handle and extend upwardly thereon for some distance. i

The protector consists of two members 12 and 13, each having an elongated body 14.

and a pair of'medially positioned wings15 extending from the body 14. The wings are furnished with a row of perforations 16 and one end of the body, as at 17, may be slightly'wider than the opposite end, as at 18; this for the purpose of fitting the different diameters of the handle which is gen- 7 erally tapered.

The protector is preferablymanufactured by stampingout blanks of the shape illustrated in Fig. 3 of sheet metal or heavy tin and either furnished flat, as seen in the said figure, or curved-along a longitudinal axis to conform with the configuration of the handle, as seen in Fig. 2. The two body members 12" and 13 of the protector are slipped over the heavy portion of the, handle as seen in Figs. 1 and 2, and made toembrace the latter. In this position the wings '15 of one body member 13 will overlap the wings from the mating body member 12 and the perforations 16 in the wings will coincide with'each other to receive a brad or screw 19 on each side of the handle for fastening the protector thereon and securing the two body members 12 and 13 rigidly together at the same time. 1

It will be evident that by furnishing a plurality of perforations 16 in each wing it is possible to enlarge or contract the protector to suit any handle.

It will also be noted that the material used is flexible enough to permitthe opening'or closing of each. body member to fit over its particular half of the handle. I

A pick furnished with a protector of this character does not need a renewal of the handle. 'for sometime as any blows from rocks or lumpsof coal will not hit the handle directly but will be received'by the protector which'in this manner saves the handle.

When putting the pick in the fire for temporing the points. the flame will in this case not burn the handle as the flame will strike the protector instead of the handle.

Having thusdescribed the invention, what is claimed as new is:.

An adjustable tool handle protector comprising a pair of mating members of hard too rectangular body and a pair of medial Wings making the member symmetrical as regards its longitudinal and transverse axes, each Wing provided With a' series of perforations, the body being folded to conform with a portion of the transverse configuration of the handle, While said wings are adapted to overlap on the opposite sides of the handle,

and said perforations selectively register in corresponding Wings in accordance with the 10 cross section of the handle, and fastening devices inserted through the registering perforations in said 7 Wings for seeurin said members to each other and to the hen le.

In testimony whereof I afilx my signature.

JOHN S. CURZON. [1,. s] 

